"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Some resources from book Men on Strike
- Thread starter Lynx nkaf
- Start date
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
mrgoodstuff
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Makes perfect sense. A way to handle it with integrity.
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New and improved? What's that? "Now without fuzzy hats"?
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I believe it's a 2010 book*.
*Lynx: I'm all for older books. Just making the point that it's probably not "new" as in 2019-2020.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
oh ok. I copied the exact title and that's why those words are in there between the two "book title" quotation marks.
Thanks. I found some Mystery youtube videos it would be nice to get that book. I like how he teaches. Too bad he's not on sosuave.
hey, I gotta defend my golden horseshoe(area of world we're both from) guy........peacocking works.
I have this bright silver cap and I get all kinds of openers and negs on. So his fuzzy black hats and black fingernails worked.
Hope he's doing ok, btw.
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I tried some crazy peacocking back during the 2004 to 2010 era. Can search the Fuze necklace or LED Belt lol.
The former worked ok with women; the later was only funny and entertaining for guys.